I've got a Konica Minolta DiMAGE Scan Elite 5400. My Nikon-nut son has a Nikon
4000 something or other. I got tired of his mouth, which, being a chip off the
old block, he tends to run, so we had a scanner contest a few months back, each
scanning a dozen of the same slides and a dozen of the same negatives. Now he
wants my scanner; I don't want his. The only areas where the Minolta 5400 was
noticeably better than the Nikon were in detail, sharpness, contrast, color,
and dymanic range. Otherwise, about the only difference was that, yeah, the
files from the Nikon were smaller. :-)
Walt
--
"Anything more than 500 yards from
the car just isn't photogenic." --
Edward Weston
-------------- Original message ----------------------
From: "Piers Hemy" <piers@xxxxxxxx>
>
> Amateur Photographer reviewed the K-M Scan Elite 5400II last week, and gave
> it a very favourable verdict:
>
> FOR:
> Very high resolution
> Excellent dynamic range
> Much better handling than previous model
> Good colour and exposure control
>
> AGAINST:
> Can't deal with panoramics
> Film-strip holder could be better
>
> In the text I found one passage particularly insightful:
>
> "In our test of the original ... Dimage Scan Elite 5400 ... we found that
> while the results the scanner produced were of excellent quality, getting
> those results could sometimes be frustrating. In this newer Konica Minolta
> has promised faster scanning times and more rapid previewing, indexing and
> general handling. It is also said that Minolta has drawn on a good deal of
> Konica's mini-lab experience to produce automated colour and exposure
> analysis systems that bring high-end controls to the domesticated desktop."
>
> Aside from my desktop hardly qualfying for the description "domesticated", I
> think they liked it quite a bit.
>
> If there is interest, I could be persuaded to scan and put it up on a
> webpage for a short while.
>
> --
> Piers
>
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